There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.