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

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

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.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.