He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.