The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its inter... - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

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

"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."

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."