History never embraces more than a small part of reality

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

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.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.