Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

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

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

What is human is immortal!