A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

A precedent embalms a principle.

We are taught words, not ideas.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.