No man becomes bad all at once.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
To have slaved so many years for nothing!