Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.