Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.