Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.