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.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.