People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.