"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."

"Love and friendship exclude each other."

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."

"It is a essential truth that to know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a enduring truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought."

"It is a timeless truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a enduring truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain — an essential principle for the reflective life."