It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.