Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject