In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Our thoughts are free.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.