If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.