“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.”

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

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”

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

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

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refuge in art. The best in nature is raw without art, and the excellent is lacking if it lacks culture. Without cultivation everyone is a clown and needs polish, fine attributes notwithstanding.”