“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

“There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:Not only is he prompt to lend—An angler delicate, he fishesThe very deepest of your wishes,And spares your modesty the taskHis friendly aid to ask.A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,When pointing at the object dear.”

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

“Patience and time do more than force and rage.”

“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”

“The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.”