The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.