Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.