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Might not someone jeer at us in the same way, as being afraid, when we have not yet one firm friendship, that we shall without knowing it fall upon an abundance of friends?

All the toys that infatuate men, and which they play for

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.

We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

To be great is to be misunderstood

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Let my soul become enlarged; I am not enough; I am little and contemptible.

Presidential powers are not fixed but fluctuate, depending upon their disjunction or conjunction with those of Congress.

It never seems to them that they have served enough; they have a fine impatience of their virtues.

To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire.

Difficult and embarrassing questions meet us at the threshold of this subject.

Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.

Many friendships are formed by a community of sensual pleasures: all these will be cut off.

To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings, because they are his own.

A man must have the courage to be himself, and not the shadow or the echo of another.

Courage may be displayed in everyday life as well as in historic fields of action.

Energy of temperament, with a moderate degree of wisdom, will carry a man further than any amount of intellect without it.

Self-respect, originating in self-love, instigates the first step of improvement.

Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue.

A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.

The ostentation of grief is many times more than the grief itself.

To mourn without measure is folly, and not to mourn at all is insensibility.