We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.