There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.