Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.