Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.