“Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.”

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”

“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

“Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself”

“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us”

“Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. ”