It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.