Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Ambition has no rest.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Nothing ages like laziness.