Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

The only thing some people do is get older.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.