Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.