No young man ever thinks he shall die.
Hope is the best possession.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.