"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."

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."

"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."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

"A little more than kin, and less than kind."

"Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions."

"Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met."

"A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return."

"Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them."