Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.