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

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-