When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings