Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.