To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.