Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.