"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."