The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
My friends are my estate.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.