Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.