There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.