There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
Man is a reasoning Animal.