Keep your friendships in repair.
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.