Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.