The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.