Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.