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.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Master books, but do not let them master you.