There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.
Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.
There’s one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.
Stupidity, – unconscious ignorance.
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided – it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.
Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.
Don’t have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.
When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
Young widows still bide their time.