Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.