Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.