I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.