Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.