I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

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

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.