A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.