None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.