Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.
Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.