Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.