"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

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

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out."

"Joy is not a thing, it is in us."

"Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec."

"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."

"Learn to obey before you command."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."