Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.