Time is the herald of truth.

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

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.