Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

Tact is good taste in action.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.