Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.