When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.