There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
Esteem never makes ingrates.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.