People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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