“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”

“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.”

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”

“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”

“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”

“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”