Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Thrift is of great revenue.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
