Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

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

Wisdom that don't make us happier ain't worth plowing for.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.