Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.