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.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

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

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Rank is a great beautifier.