Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.