Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.