If you would be pungent, be brief; 

for it is with words as with sunbeams — 

the more they are condensed, 

the deeper they burn.

How little do they see what is, 

who frame their hasty judgments 

upon that which seems.

All deception 

in the course of life 

is indeed nothing else 

but a lie reduced to practice, 

and falsehood passing from words into things.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, 

without sinning against his own soul. 

The evil effect on himself is certain.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; 

time may heal the anguish of the wound, 

but the loss cannot be repaired.