Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.