There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.