Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.