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

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

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

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.