Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.