Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.