Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.