Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

Culture is religion incarnate.

It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.

It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.