Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.