The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age