Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.