One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

One honor won is a surety for more.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.