It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

Like readily consorts with like.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.