As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.