"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner."
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
