“Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them”

“It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it”

“But what is past my help is past my care”

“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”