There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.