Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.