Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Writing is busy idleness.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.