"We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy."

"For the greatest glory is to be spoken of for one's virtues."

"Wealth is with us rather an opportunity for action than a subject for boasting."

"For what you hold is, to speak somewhat plainly, a tyranny; to take it perhaps was wrong, but to let it go is unsafe."

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."