“He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.”

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.

The evil that we know is best.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory – and I’m so sorry to have to admit this – but there was a Domino’s Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.