The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

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.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.