He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.