Vain Hopes Are Like Certain Dreams Of

For All The Best Teachers Pride Themselves On Having A Large Number Of Pupils And Think Themselves Worthy Of A Bigger Audience.

The Soul Languishing In Obscurity Contracts A Kind Of Rust, Or Abandons Itself To The Chimera Of Presumption; For It Is Natural For It To Acquire Something, Even When Separated From Any One.

Conscience Is A Thousand Witnesses.

Though Ambition In Itself Is A Vice, Yet It Is Often The Parent Of Virtues. [lat., Licet Ipsa Vitium Sit Ambitio, Frequenter Tamen Causa Virtutem Est.]

While We Are Examining Into Everything We Sometimes Find Truth Where We Least Expected It.