There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

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

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.