The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

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

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

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.

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

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears