Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!