Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.