If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.