The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.