We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

As many servants so many enemies.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.