Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.