One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.