Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.