First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness

The gods too are fond of a joke

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own

He who hath many friends hath none

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love

People generally despise where they flatter

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds

Friendship is essentially a partnership