"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place."

"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

"Reason should direct and appetite obey."

"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."

"Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)"

"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."

"God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding."

"Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."

"Fleeing from death is the shortest path to a wasted life."

"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American."