Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.