To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.