Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.