To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

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

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

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

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.