“Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact