In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in times of adversity not one in twenty.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.