That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

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

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.