[Marriage] can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

[Philosophy] forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

’Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

’Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children’s affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.