The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age
To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t
The old ways are the safest and surest ways
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
