Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.