Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.