As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

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