To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Come back with your shield - or on it

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good