I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

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

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.