Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.