Men Are Much More Unwilling To Have

Polished Brass Will Pass Upon More People Than Rough Gold.

A Young Fellow Ought To Be Wiser Than He Should Seem To Be; And An Old Fellow Ought To Seem Wise Whether He Really Be So Or Not.

Choose Your Pleasures For Yourself, And Do Not Let Them Be Imposed Upon You.

At Any Age We Must Cherish Illusions, Consolatory Or Merely Pleasant; In Youth, They Are Omnipresent; In Old Age We Must Search For Them, Or Even Invent Them. But With All That, Boredom Is Their Natural And Inevitable Accompaniment.

A Man Who Tells Nothing, Or Who Tells All, Will Equally Have Nothing Told Him.