The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.