The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason