A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.