To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.