Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.