"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."
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."