The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.