Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
True self-love and social are the same.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.