They're only truly great who are truly good.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.