Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.