Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.