Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.