Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.