Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Science finds it methods.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.