I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

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.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.