True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
What is genius or courage without a heart?
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.