“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.”

Defining enduring friendship as confidence in another person’s character · Prose, The Doctor

• Character
• Friendship
• Time

“One fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary.”

Warning that wrongdoing can generate its own escalating chain of consequences · Prose, The Book of the Church, 1824

• Character
• Justice
• Morality

“Literary fame is the only fame of which a wise man ought to be ambitious, because it is the only lasting and living fame.”

Presenting literature as a form of reputation capable of surviving its age · Letter to Walter Savage Landor, 2 May 1808

• Fame
• Literature
• Time