When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.