A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

There is no power greater than true affection.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.