 We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. |
| Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. |
| Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. |
| Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. |
| Love and friendship exclude each other. |
| Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. |
| Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. |
| All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. |
| As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. |
| A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. |
| When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. |
