Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.