Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.