The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.