Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.