Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.