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.
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.