“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.