The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.