"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." — Oliver Goldsmith

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.