"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back."

"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire."

"When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration."

"One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue."

"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."