“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”
“The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.”
“"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."”
“The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”
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