The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
Freedom is the power to choose our own chains
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.