| 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. |
