It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

One must steer, not talk.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.