No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.