Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.