It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.