The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)