A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Mutability is written upon all things.
It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.