To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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.
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.
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.