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

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

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

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

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.