We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.