We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.