Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.