Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

There is no magician like love.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.