Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

Appearances: 'It is better to be respected as wise than feared as cunning. Being clever is no fault, nor is calculating necessarily devious, but virtue often a…

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.