Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

True friendship is never serene.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.