No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.