The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.