There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.