Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

The little man is still a man.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.