He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.