In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.