“Friendship needs no words it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness”

“For all that has been thanks. For all that shall be yes.”

“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”

“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”