That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

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

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.