I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.