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

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.