Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.