Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.