The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.