The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.