“it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody”

“... nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.”

“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”

“In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...”

“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days. The young man's life is just beginning: the boy's leading-strings are cut, and he has all the novel delights and dignities of freedom. He has no idea of cares yet, or of bad health, or of roguery, or poverty, or to-morrow's disappointment.”

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.”