Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.