“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
