The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.