Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.