Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

In success be moderate.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.