The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Skill to do comes of doing.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.