Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.