It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.