The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!