Success never needs an excuse.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

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

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.