2097  Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

2646  “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

1262  In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

1490  Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

1565  Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.