It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.