Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.