In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.