“ In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. John James Ingalls American Politician
“ What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water. George Santayana Philosopher
“ What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer. Francois De La Rochefoucauld Author
“ We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend. Philibert Joseph Roux Surgeon