Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.