Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."