The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.