The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.