It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.