Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is… - William Hazlitt

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for — they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.