Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.