There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
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