The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.