They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Probability is the very guide of life.