He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.