A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!