The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

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

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

Sudden love is latest cured.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

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