What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.