The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
Youth is the only thing worth having.
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.