“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”

“Be open to suggestion, no one is so perfect that they may not need advice from time to time.”

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... To find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”

“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”

“Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end”