One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.