“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
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Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.