Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

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

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.