It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.