The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.