A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

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

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here.