Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.