Delay of justice is injustice.
There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that...
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.