Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.