It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.