Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.