“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved
“Good-night! Good-night! as we so oft have said beneath this roof at midnight, in the days that are no more, and shall no more return. Thou has but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays to cover up the embers that still burn.