It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.