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

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.