Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject