False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Example has far more followers than reason.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.