What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

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

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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