"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."

"Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully"

"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."

"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."

"Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example."

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying."

"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."

"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."

"It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,"