Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

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

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

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.