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

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.