The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.