Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Books are the curse of the human race.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.