The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.