Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

No really great man ever thought himself so.