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.