“Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

“No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

“Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

“Your aspirations are your possibilities.”

“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.”

“Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”

“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand.”