We cannot learn men from books.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.