Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.