Read much, but not too many books.

Don't cry over spilled milk

An old man in a house is a good sign.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.