Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?