To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

An old young man, will be a young old man.

It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.