No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
I believe because it is impossible.
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
I do not give money for just mere hopes.
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
As a person is so must you humor them.
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
Of my friends I am the only one left.
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
Nothing is said which has not been said before.
Their silence is praise enough.
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.