What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

They do not think, therefore they are not.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.