A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.