Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.