Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.