“It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.”

“Old age is by nature rather talkative.”

“Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”

“Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.”

“If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.”

“What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”