He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.