He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.