“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
“Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.”
“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker”
“Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.”
“It requires more than mere genius to be an author.”
“They that have lived a single day have lived an age.”
“This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.”
“The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.”
“Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”
“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”
“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.”
“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”
“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.”
“One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”
“We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.”
“A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.”
“The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?”
“If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.”
“Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.”
“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
“Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.”
“The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.”
“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”
“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.”
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.”
“A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.”