No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do