“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.”

“A person hears only what they understand.”

“Duty is the demand of the hour.”

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

“Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?”

“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”

“Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.”