The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.