I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.