There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

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.

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

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.