It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.