Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

We are never content with our lot.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

A hare is not caught with a drum.

In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.