Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.