A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.