As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.