The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.