The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful.