I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal.
Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean’d to Virtue’s side.
Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.