Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

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

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

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.