Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.