We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.