» Ability without honor is useless.
» I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
» Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
» We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
» What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
» To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
» People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
» Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
» True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
» A man of courage is also full of faith.