When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.