As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.