Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

All perishable is but an allegory.