“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”

“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”

“There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”

“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”