The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.