Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.