Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Few maxims are true in every respect.
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.