True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.