When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.