Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

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.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.