"Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather."

"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."

"Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror."

"Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole."

"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."

"His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."

"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

"Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back."

"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary."

"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete."