It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

Whatever begins, also ends.