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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Taste may change, but inclination never.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.