I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.