History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Always the same thing.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.