It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.