The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

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

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

The worst old age is that of the mind.