Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.