Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

To teach is to learn twice.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Justice is the truth in action.