Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.