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

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.