On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.