No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
There is no power greater than true affection.
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.