Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.