What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times

Love truth, but pardon error.

'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'