A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.