When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.