Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?