Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

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

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.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.