Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.