Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.