"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."
"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."
"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."