Youth Is A Perpetual Intoxication; It Is

Generally Speaking, We Would Make A Good Bargain By Renouncing All The Good That People Say Of Us, Upon Condition They Would Say No Ill.

Behind Many Acts That Are Thought Ridiculous There Lie Wise And Weighty Motives.

The Applause We Give Those Who Are New To Society Often Proceeds From A Secret Envying Of Those Already Established.

What Renders Us So Changeable In Our Friendship Is, That It Is Difficult To Know The Qualities Of The Soul, But Easy To Know Those Of The Mind.

Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Offices; It Is A Species Of Commerce Out Of Which Self-love Always Expects To Gain Something.