There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.