Grace is to the body what reason is to the mind. - François de La Rochefoucauld

However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we always believe them more sincere with us than with others.

Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? Can grey hairs make folly venerable, and is there no period to be reserved for meditation or retirement.” — Junius, To the Duke of Bedford, 19th Sept. 1769.]

The wise man finds it better not to enter the encounter than to conquer.