You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.