“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them”

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties”

“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age”

“Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance”

“By indignities men come to dignities”

“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them”