The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
