“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”

“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. ”