A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.