I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.