When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.