The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Time,--the most independent of all things.
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.