To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.