Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.