As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

My art and profession is to live.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.