Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.