“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”

“People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.”

“It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it”

“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. ”