Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.