Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.