Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.