Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.