The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.