Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Esteem never makes ingrates.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.