... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.