Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.