Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

Humor is the mistress of tears.