The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.