“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”

“Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.”

“The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”

“He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.”

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.”