Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.