It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.