Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.