Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.