What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

No evil is without its compensation.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.