How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.