The triumph of hope over experience.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.