The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

To teach is to learn twice.