Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.