What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.