To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
All art is an imitation of nature.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.