Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.