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- "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
- "The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
- "It is not so much our friends'help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- "We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need."
- "Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."
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