All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.