It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.