However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.