Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

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