Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
Great talkers, little doers.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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.