Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.