Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
The most universal quality is diversity.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.