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

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

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

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

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.