He that would travel much, should eat little.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.