One has no friend who has many friends.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

A friend is a second self.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.