Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.