“There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.”

“The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.”

“A mans mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.”

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".”

“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.”

“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.”

“In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.”

“Often I return to the grave after leaving flowers tulips, lilies, carnations to find the heads eaten by deer. Its just as good a use for the flowers as any, and one Paul would have liked. The ear...”

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

“Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.”

“The most cruel and disobedient people will be saved, if there is one who would stand before God for His people”