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

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

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

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

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

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

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.