Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.