The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.