Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.

By doubting we come at truth.

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey?s end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".

As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.