Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

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.