The Useless Digest A Free Weekly dose of Facts, Quotes, History and more - direct to your inbox. A true friend is the greatest of all blessing, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire. Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in afire.
Few people know how to be old.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.