The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.