A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times

No Sane man will dance.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.