“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Charity begins at home.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

She never was really charming till she died.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.