Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.