Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.