Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.