All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.