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.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.