Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.