The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgement to hold their tongues.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.
We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
