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.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

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

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.