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.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

Envy is littleness of soul.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.