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.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

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

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

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.