Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.