"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands."

"Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"Most of our imports come from other countries."

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."