There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

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