Business first, then pleasure.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.