To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men. Samuel Parr More Quotes by Samuel Parr More Quotes From Samuel Parr The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. Samuel Parr excess austerity triumph Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice. Samuel Parr policy sound justice To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. Samuel Parr private-life evil men Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice. Samuel Parr gratitude virtue justice