He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.