Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

Great men have always had dogs.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.