Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

A progeny of learning.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.