Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.