We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.