“why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?”

“The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.”

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”

“In life, you love the one whom you can never have.”

“Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?”

“I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give any thing or not, and show them the list of those who have given; and, lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of them you may be mistaken.”