The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.