The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.