It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres..

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune..

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. P….

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away..

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself..

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesti….

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral im….

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct..

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both..

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the coun….

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest..

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte..

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate ….

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues..

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers..

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely..

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice..

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture..

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper..

It takes a great man to make a great listener.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enter….