We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Beauty

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Common Sense

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Enthusiasm

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Fate

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Happiness

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Inconsistency

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Men and Women

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

Philosophers and Philosophy

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Sorrow

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Vanity

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Writers and Writing

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.