Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.

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

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

The way to good conduct is never too late.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.