Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.