A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

Two heads are better than one.

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.