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

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.