There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little b...etter than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please--that is, as they please or displease us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing ...another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time,... forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »