There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.