Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

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.