Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.