"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire."

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it."

"When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the idea that we have left them."

"What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving."

"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books."

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."

"May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!"