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

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.