We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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

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

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.