“Everyone desires long life, not one old age.”

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Books, the children of the brain.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

I must admit, I was born at an early age.