O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

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

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.