We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.