Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.