"Nature herself makes the wise man rich."

"The more laws, the less justice."

"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."

"I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."

"Everyone is the age of their heart."

"People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'"

"In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost."