It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

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.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.