A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
Principle is a passion for truth.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.