The best of life is conversation.

Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.

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

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

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

No man can have society upon his own terms.