Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.