E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

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.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.