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.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.