Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.