One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.