Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

It needs courage to be afraid.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.