It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.