True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.