One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

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

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.