The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.