God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.