Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.