Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.