Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

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

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.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.