Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.