If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.