Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
No one can keep a mask on long.
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.