Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.