“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”

“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”

“Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”