Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Convert life into truth.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.