Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.