To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.