“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

Not for ourselves alone are we born.

Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

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

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

If you want to know me, Look inside your heart.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.

Find the right people, not the best people.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.