Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
All diseases run into one, old age.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.