The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Anger is practical awkwardness.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.