“Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.”
“Fake friends are no friends. Choose wisely”
“If people often judge you by the company that you keep...then choose your company wisely my friend, choose wisely!”
“To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down. ”
“In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.”
“A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.”