The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

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