Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.