If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
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.
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.