Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.