Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.