The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.