How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty...
The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept...
People say that life is the thing but I prefer reading.
We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others...
If you want to be thought a liar always tell the truth.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want...
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older...
Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
