Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.