At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.