“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

“Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.”

“The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”

“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make...”

“Be a good human.”

“Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”