Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.