A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.