What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.
A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it