A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Reading maketh a full man.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

This world's a bubble.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

Politicians like the effect of alcohol because it makes them feel important.

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.