Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.