if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.