When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.