“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Friendship“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”
Best“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Friendship“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.”
Love“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”
Strength“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
Friendship“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”
Best“Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.”
Great“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
Love“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
Age“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
Women“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
Men“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.”
Men“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
Great“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
Love“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.”
Great“We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.”
Time“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
Love“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.”
Men“Only the contemptible fear contempt.”
Fear“Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”
Men“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
Men