As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

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

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.