The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.