As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.