A friend to all is a friend to none.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.


Hope is a waking dream.


Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.


No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.



No one loves the man whom he fears.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.