"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't."

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."

"Life is too short to be taken seriously."

"The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not."

"The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year."

"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."

"He will give the devil his due."

"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed."

"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive."

"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."

"There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience."