The guilt of many men may be traced to over-affection for their wives. Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other. Some men have sufficient strength of mind to change their disposition, or at least to yield to imperative circumstances. It is too late to reprieve a man when the drop has fallen. It is a truth that man is difficult to know, and that, if we may not deceive ourselves, we must judge him by his actions of the moment, and for the moment only.
Friendship is but a name.
Men have their virtues, their vices, their heroism, their perverseness, they possess and exercise all that is good, and all that is bad in this world. Men, in general, are but children of a larger growth. Men of letters are useful, and should ever be cherished, as they do honour to their country. Great men are like meteors, which shine and consume themselves to enlighten the earth. To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.