One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.