It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.