At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

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.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.