Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.