To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.