What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.