“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover”

“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”

“Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.”

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”

“True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation”

“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”

Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.”

“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”

“Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.”

“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.”

“And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform,

“We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”

“Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.”

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”

“But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.”

“I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.”

“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride”

“Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.”

“A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.”

“Skaitymas protui - tolygu fiziniai pratimai kūnui.”

“Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.”

“One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.”

“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”

“Tis not in mortals to command success; but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.”

“... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.”

“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.”