Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

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

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Nothing ages like laziness.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Ambition has no rest.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.