Our lives teach us who we are.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.