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.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.