Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.