Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.