» To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
» Nothing is said which has not been said before.
» Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
» Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
» Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
» I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
» Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.