Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.