Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

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

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.