Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.