Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.