A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?