St. Jerome

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.