It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.