The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.