Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

Ability without honor has no value.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

That man is idle who can do something better.