Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.