When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.