There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.