A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.