Experience is the extract of suffering.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.