A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.