• It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

• Never cut what you can untie.

• Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty

• To teach is to learn twice.

• Children need models more than they need critics.

• Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

• We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

• Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

• Imagination is the eye of the soul.

• Justice is the truth in action.

• The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.