True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

There are male as well as female gossips.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.