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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.