True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
I am then never less alone than when alone
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.