The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.