In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.