Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.