Give your host a little something when you leave; little presents are little courtesies and never offend.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.