We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.