Aphorisms

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

“Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

If you solve all of your children’s problems, they will have no problems left but you.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.