It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.