While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.