It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

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

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

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