The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.