If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!