To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.