"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."

"Such was the burial they gave to Hector, tamer of horses."

"You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."

"We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth."

"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed."

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

"PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible."

"Comedy is tragedy plus time."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."