Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.