As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

Hope is the mother of faith.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.